Gorgeous Windows-Inspired Playing Cards Are Perfect for Solitaire

But do they do that cool animation when you win?

Whether you know it or not, designer Susan Kare has probably touched your digital life in one way or another. Maybe through the original Mac OS fonts and icons, or maybe through Solitaire on Windows 3.0. If you're a fan of number two, you're in for a treat: a deck of playing cards that bring it to life.

I remember using a Microsoft Paint program with 16 VGA colors and saving the .bmp files on a 5.25-inch floppy disk, which I still have. This project obviously wasn't designing a physical deck from scratch, but rather imagining how to feature familiar images in a new way with a nod to their heritage.

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Making this deck of cards wasn't as easy as just printing them out though. Unlike the Solitaire game, the real deck needed jokers and so Kare dutifully whipped up a design. This time she used Photoshop. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like she found a way to add this:

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You can pick up your own deck for $14 once they're back in stock. Though with something this viciously cool, the refreshed stock might not last for long.